Mr Paul Shabajee

Summary

http://sympact.cs.bris.ac.uk

Biography

Paul is a multi-disciplinary Research Fellow based in the Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol. His broad research interests span three main areas, sustainability/sustainable development, applications of Information & Communications Technologies (ICT) and education.

Within Sympact Paul’s foci are on understanding methodological  issues in assessing the energy and greenhouse gas impacts of the digital news media lifecycle, modelling the business context and user behaviour. Paul is also an advisor and analyst on the Greening Events project which is funded under the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), Greening ICT Programme based in the University’s operational Sustainability Unit and Institute for Learning and Research Technologies (ILRT).

Paul was previously Senior Research Scientist Hewlett Packard Labs, Bristol, where we was a member of both Sustainable IT Ecosystems Lab (SIEL) and Semantic and Adaptive Systems Department. While in SIEL a primary focus was working in collaboration with WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) to help develop methodologies for assessing the net effects of ICT solutions designed to reduce negative environmental and other sustainability impacts of human activities. During this period he was HP’s representative on the WRI/WBCSD Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Product & Supply Chain Protocol technical Working Group on Data & Quantification.

In addition to his work at University of Bristol he is a senior technical consultant with Epimorphics a small Linked Open Data (LOD) focused company based in Portishead just outside Bristol. His work there has included work on the Earthster project (Environmental Life Cycle Assessment initiative) and a Technology Strategy Board (TSB) funded project on potential of Linked Open Data (LOD) in the context of community information systems, Community Insight.

Skills

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Methodologies

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Memberships

Organisations

Department of Computer Science

IT Services

Other sites

• Engineering
• It-services

Recent publications

• Schien, D, Preist, CW, Yearworth, M & Shabajee, P. ‘Impact of Geographic Location on the Energy Footprint of ICT Services’, IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (IEEE ISSST 2012), 2012
• Schien, D, Preist, CW, Shabajee, P & Yearworth, M. ‘Dynamic Carbon Footprinting of Digital Services’, 25th International Conference on Environmental Informatics (EnviroInfo) 2011, Joint Research Center (JRC), Ispra, Italy, Proceedings 25th International Conference on Environmental Informatics (EnviroInfo) 2011, Joint Research Center (JRC), Ispra, Italy, 2, (pp. 592-600), 2011. ISBN: 9783844004519
• Yearworth, M, Schien, D, Preist, CW & Shabajee, P. ‘Systems Modelling of New Media Services’, The 29th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society. Washington, DC, USA, Proceedings of the 29th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, 2011. ISBN: 9781935056089
• Shabajee, P & Hiom, DA. ‘Rethinking Events: Greening Events in Higher and Further Education’, 2011
• Preist, CW & Shabajee, P. ‘Energy Use in the Media Cloud’, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, 2010
• David Bent, James Goodman, Preist, CW, Richard Hardyment, Shabajee, P, Iain Watt & Katja Wessling. ‘Climate Futures responses to climate change in 2030’, 2008
• Elke Michlmayr, Steven Cayzer & Shabajee, P. ‘Adaptive User Profiles for Enterprise Information Access’, 2007
• Michlmayr, Elke, Cayzer, Steve & Shabajee, P. ‘Add-A-Tag: Learning Adaptive User Profiles from Bookmark Collections’, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'06), Boulder, Colorado, USA, 2007
• Shabajee, P. ‘Informed Consent on the Semantic Web’, Semantic Web User Interaction Workshop, International Semantic Web Conference, Athens, Georgia, USA, 2006
• Shabajee, P, McBride, B, Steer, D & Reynolds, D. ‘A prototype Semantic Web-based digital content exchange for schools in Singapore’, British Journal of Educational Technology, 37, (pp. 461-477), 2006

View complete publications list in the University of Bristol publications system

Networks & contacts

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Projects

• Greening Events II